Given the media dismissal of Donald Trump and its eagerness to canonize Barack Obama’s eight years with another eight of Hillary Clinton, Russia by late 2016 went from a deity to a demon. It was reinvented as Mitt Romney’s enemy of liberal democracy, and, after the election, served as Hillary Clinton’s excuse for losing the election — and Putin became the new ally and collaborator of Donald Trump!
But the change in media attitudes is fully explained by the change in Democratic attitudes that tracked the sudden 180 degree turn that the Obama administration took regarding Russia.
Did the Obama administration collude with Russia, then? Well, not really. Such parallel courses came naturally. Birds of a feather flock together.
Will Democratic resolve to oppose Russia endure after their resolve to resist Trump fades?
